Our friend J. Todd Ormsbee shared a yizkor of his dear friend Karl Savage recently, and tonight’s Kaddish recording is for Karl. Todd told me a bit more about Karl after seder at Mira’s, and I can still see the sadness in Todd’s eyes as he quietly answered my questions.
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A podcast of the daily recordings of Lev Kogan’s “Kaddish” for solo horn, by Erin L. Vang, usually but not always on horn and often including improvisations and collaborations with Mira Z. Amiras and guest artists.
daily kaddish: for the sjsu parking lot 3, and thanks
A kaddish for the three killed in the SJSU parking lot shooting Tuesday night, and a prayer of thanks that Mira parks in a different garage.
daily kaddish: for hindy nobler
An audio response to Mira’s kaddish for her biofather’s wife, incorporating yesterday’s joint reading of the text.
daily kaddish: for really bad books
It seems appropriate to me that an audio response to Mira’s kaddish for really bad books ended up displaying really bad reading from me.
daily kaddish: for the biofather
A real kaddish in two-part harmony, at last. With Kjersti scratching the Afghani kelim underfoot. A kaddish for Milton G. Nobler—painter, chemist, Renaissance man, and very flawed human being — just like the rest of us.
daily kaddish: from the parking lot
If this Kaddish seems a little distracted, hurried perhaps, not fully focused on grief or lost loves, it’s because I was playing it in a parking lot outside a concert hall with actors warming up just inside, musicians strolling past, passersby smoking, and car doors slamming.
daily kaddish: for Ruth Leavitt Kadish
Today’s Kaddish is in honor of Mira’s longtime friend Lori Goldwyn’s mother, Ruth Leavitt Kadish. Lori wrote a yizkor for her mom a few weeks ago, and it was my honor to record today’s kaddish for both of them.
daily kaddish: cinco de mayo
a “blender drinks” kind of kaddish for cinco de mayo
daily kaddish: for blaze
My friend Jaryn has another new kitty angel.
daily kaddish: for qaddafi’s son, et al
NATO airstrikes killed Qaddafi’s son and three grandchildren on Saturday night. I find the rebels’ stance (stances—let’s be realistic) compelling, but it’s not clear to me that Qaddafi’s dictatorship is the worst thing Libya has known.
What is clear to me is that there’s an awful lot of dying going on, and I don’t hear any music in that.